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I would expect that with a fairly even distribution such as ages, the median and mean would be similar. Medians are primarily useful for data sets with large ou
by PeterFBell 9y ago
I would expect that with a fairly even distribution such as ages, the median and mean would be similar. Medians are primarily useful for data sets with large outliers and I doubt there are many 400 year old YC alumni :)
- ekianjo 9y agoNot sure, but if there are a bunch of 40s years old, this would already start shifting the average upwards compared to the mean even if the data is rather centered in the mid 20s.